Video:
youtu.be/DNH3cj0YMtk
Happy b-day grandma.
🎂 Happy 82nd b-day grandma, wishing you health and joy.
Probably the biggest reason why I'm doing music anyways is my grandma.
An under-the-radar, Macedonian folk singer from the last century, certainly forgotten by many, Kostadinka Jancheva - Krstikj is a gem in our traditional music history. In her best times, she won numerous awards for singing and performing, recorded music with numerous and most notable traditional Macedonian singers and toured the Balkans and Australia. A radio journalist in the 80's called her voice - a "velvet" voice. Today, at 82 - she still sounds exactly the same.
In early 2020, I decided to turn around things for her and leave a mark in modern history about her legacy. I recorded her singing around 15 traditional songs, as A Capella in her living room.
Since then, unfortunately, I only had managed to complete 1 song - which I'm publishing today for her 82nd birthday, together with a video.
I hope - in the upcoming years - I will manage to complete those A Capella's and surround them with music and maybe turn it into an album. In the meantime - there is a channel on YouTube I also created as an Homage to her legacy - containing a compilation of her videos and singles:
www.youtube.com/@kostadinkajanchevakrstik9107
Yeah it's my favorite super grandma's bday. Thank you grandma for your influence and implementing your music DNA into mine. Happy bday! 🎉
released July 11, 2023
Produced by: Filip Tasevski - Fitz aka Blackstate
Mastered by: Nenad Trifunovski - Tripe
Video by: Mario Stankovikj